A bunch of people had left after high school and it was tough, but it also meant I had more time to hang with others. Russ was in his senior year and he made this tape around the time we started putting songs together. I think I told him a story about coming in 1st place for every race in the fifth grade Olympics, but during the last run this one kid ran against me. He was with the popular crowd [the ones that would shave nike and batman symbols on the back of their heads and color in the skin with colored markers]. And he just beats me by a bit in the last race and he became "the fastest kid in fifth grade."We were toying with that as a band name or song title at one point, and then he made it a mix tape name. I included it in this series because 1. I've blasted the hell out of it over the years and 2. It's a good snapshot of a moment in time and of course its got some awesome tracks on it. The Archer's and Polvo and Jawbreaker songs were soundtrack during that fall and winter after highschool dead-ended in a crappy job, trying to scrape some money together and figure out what the hell I wanted to do. I could pass on the Ben Folds, Velocity Girl, and Promise Ring songs. Not hate'n here. I love this tape, but some of the flow slows down with these. I thought I shouldn't meddle with someone else's mix and it's definitely Russ's style and a moment in time [as per the date] and I know [as he clearly stated] that he sent it with love...
Available HERE.
Buuuut I went ahead and did that I feel bad and feel like I'm opening up pandora's box with this tape series, but you can get the sense of what I do without hearing the weeeaaarrrrwww of the tape fast forwarding. So I clipped those songs and put that version up HERE.
Thanks for the tape Russ!
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